page_title: Ichabod Crane (colonel)
section_title: Family
hierarchical_section_title: Ichabod Crane (colonel) / Family
caption_attribution_description: Ichabod Crane monument. Asbury Methodist Cemetery, Staten Island, New York.
context_page_description: Ichabod Bennet Crane was a career military officer for 48 years and the probable namesake of the protagonist in Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
context_section_description: Stephen Crane (1709 – July 1, 1780); grandfather, a delegate to the First Continental Congress. Bayoneted by British troops passing through Elizabethtown on their way to Springfield on June 23, 1780, died of his wounds on July 1, 1780.
  Gen. William Crane, father; born 1748 in Elizabethtown, served as major of an Essex County, New Jersey regiment.  Commissioned as a 1st lieutenant in the 4th New York Infantry Regiment in July 1775.  Fought with Richard Montgomery in the Battle of Quebec, received a leg wound on November 2, 1775 that required amputation years later. Promoted to brigadier general in the New Jersey militia after the war.
  Abigail (Miller) Crane; mother
  Charlotte; wife (May 25, 1798 - September 25, 1878).
  William Montgomery Crane (February 1, 1776 - March 18, 1846) brother, naval officer, fought in War of 1812, born in Elizabethtown died in Washington. Middle name in honor of Richard Montgomery.
  Joseph Halsey Crane, brother; Ohio congressman.
  Mariah Crane, sister
  Joanna Crane (died about 1818), sister; married John Magie.
  Phoebe Crane, sister
  Charles Henry Crane (19 July 1825 - October 10, 1883) son; Would rise through the ranks to become a Brigadier General and Surgeon General of the United States Army (1882–1883).  He was one of the attending physicians of Abraham Lincoln after he was shot.
  Eliza Crane, daughter, disappeared on July 20, 1858 after taking a ferry from Staten Island to Manhattan. Her husband Captain (future Brevet Major General) John M. Brannan was in command of the Department of Key West in Florida assigned to Fort Zachary Taylor. She had been living at the fort with her husband but went to Staten Island to stay with her mother due to illness.
caption: Col. Ichabod Crane's gravemarker
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